8.31.2009

lately we've been putting grandma's old ice cream maker to use. it has to be taken apart and operated on every time we use it, but i guess that's part of its charm. a couple weeks ago i made up a jamocha almond fudge ice cream recipe and it was faboo.. this weekend we made two different kinds:

this is mocha chip, it's one of the recipes in the book that came with the ice cream maker. it's got the same mocha ice cream as the jamocha almond fudge, but it has mini chocolate chips in it. we weren't really crazy about the chips - i'm not really a fan of chunks of chocolate in ice cream, they're always hard and waxy when frozen.

and this one is cheery cherry vanilla chip. i made this one up and so got to name it myself. what do you think? i was going for something like the cherry garcia ice cream... it has cherries and chocolate chips in a cherry vanilla ice cream. i wish i had left out the chips from this recipe as well. jeremy gets to pick next recipe, so we're going to try mint chocolate chip with shaved chocolate instead of chips.

sometimes jeremy and i daydream about having a christmas tree farm/apple orchard/pumpkin patch/watermelon patch. he'd be in charge of all the manly outdoor stuff and i'd be in charge of making it super cute. and sometimes i daydream about having a bakery.. yummy breads and cupcakes! we decided that we should sell my treats at our farm and sell ice cream in the summer.. you'd come in the summer to pick watermelons and then have some nice cold cheery cherry vanilla ice cream to cool off. and in the fall when it's time to get a pumpkin to carve you could pick up a jug of apple cider and some pumpkin bread. wouldn't that be lovely?

Oscar's birthday cake(s). the train engine was chocolate, the car was butter recipe and the caboose was strawberry. baked in bread pans an assembled into a train. ice cream cone for the smoke stack, oreos with m&m's for the wheels, oreos as coal. some sort of fruity twizzler type things for connectors and top edge of the car. cute little train candles from a party store.

train banner made of cheap construction paper. covered the high chair with red bandannas and made a little sign/banner for on the tray with some train stamps cut from sponges. lots of red, orange and blue balloons.

some railroad crossing signs around the apartment with all the balloons

time capsule station. a place for people to write notes for putting in oscar's time capsule (to be opened when he turns 18). i stamped some paper for that as well.

jeremy put down some awesome electrical tape train tracks across the floor.

jeans, overalls, red bandannas and plaid were worn

wooden train whistles from trainparty.com were wrapped in red bandannas and tied up with jute twine. the whistles were perfect. i'm so glad we got an extra one for oscar to keep!

oscar checkin' out his whistle

and the birthday boy in his sugar coma after his first cake & ice cream feast.

after the duck pond we hung out and blew bubbles for awhile and then headed to the carousel. it was definitely worth the $1 we spent on the two rides! jeremy and i got to ride free since we had to go on with oscar - score!

oscar wanted to ride the tiger, but someone else got there first, so he chose a deer.

family portrait on the carousel!

we went around again, this time oscar got his tiger.

enjoying the ride

weeeeeeeeeeee!

i liked the giraffes

i thought this was hilarious. that sign says, "please stack 24 chairs here (4 stacks of 6 chairs)" i wonder if there is a reason it has to be 4 stacks of 6 chairs or if someone there is just really anal. there are seven chairs in the second stack, by the way.

on saturday i planned a family adventure. i found fun things to do in hattiesburg and meridian, then let the guys decided where they wanted to go. oscar said hattiesburg, but jeremy was driving, so we went to meridian. lots of fun pictures, so this will be a few posts.

8.15.2009

i was originally going to post this picture to show you how busy i've been.. but really it just shows how messy i've been!

my wall is being taken over by post it notes. oh! but look at that HUGE stack of books! that is the beginning of my la leche league library! the lovely ladies at the hattiesburg la leche league gave me all their older books. now i just have to become a leader and get a group going in waynesboro....

8.10.2009

kristen and i stopped at cato's last week and picked out shirts to iron a design on and wear for our breastfeeding classes. we got caught up in the fun of shopping and i didnt keep in mind that i was going to have to design something to iron on these shirts (in a pretty pumpkin color)...

this is what i've come up with. i'm hoping it will look alright on the shirts, but i'm scared! i've got two iron-ons and two shirts, so i've only got one shot at it.. it was fun to get out the watercolors and paint something though!